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Camtasia coming to Mac on August 25th
Beginning August 25th, you'll be able to purchase Camtasia for Mac for only $99. TechSmith plans on keeping this introductory price until the end of 2009, after which the price will bounce up to $149.
Details of the Camtasia for Mac release are still extremely sketchy, but TechSmith promises to spill more beans about what the app will do over the next couple of weeks. You can sign up for email updates on the website, or follow the Visual Lounge Blog to get more info.
It'll be interesting to see how Camtasia for Mac fares against the existing screencasting champ, ScreenFlow, also available for US$99 and much more established in the Mac community. While we're waiting for Camtasia, why don't you tell us about your favorite screencasting application? Leave a comment below.
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Ron said 11:13PM on 8-08-2009
It seemed to me that most of the Mac screenrecording tools were more fully featured and easy to use, or was I mistaken?
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David said 11:16PM on 8-08-2009
"If you're wavering on the edge of switching to the Mac as a consequence of the impending release of Windows 7, this may be news that will push you over that edge."
Switching from Windows to Mac because of a screencasting application? I welcome the addition of Camtasia for Mac, however Steven, I think you're overplaying the importance of the release of the product. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the number of people who switch operating systems over the release of the Camtasia screencasting application would be marginal, if even statistically relevant. Let's keep journalism to the facts, I do not see having a dig at Windows 7 as having any relevance to the imminent release of Camtasia for Mac.
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JDog said 11:41PM on 8-08-2009
While I concur the words "If" and "may" indeed bracket a very small subset of users, namely Camtasia users who have concerns about Windows 7 (concerns which could be for any number of reasons, price, feature set, fear of the number 7) and are perhaps considering switching to Mac, but didn't want to not be able to use Camtasia.
However, I don't know where you interpret this sentence as some sort of "dig", rather that a cliched, lazy opening sentence to kick of a blog post about a Mac version of a popular (previously) Windows only application.
Dude - chillax. If you love Windows so much and want to defend it's honor, why are then trolling an innocuous blog posting on a Apple site?
Kelmon said 2:59AM on 8-09-2009
@JDog
To be honest, I was in agreement with you until your final paragraph. Why do you assume that David was "defending" Windows or is "trolling"? What is with the inability of people these days to look beyond their own little camp? I'm a fully paid-up member of the Mac community and have been since I switched from Windows about 7-years ago. However, while I continue to hate Windows XP with a fiery passion I can tell you that Windows 7 is actually pretty good and that I've placed my order for it (since I have to use it at work under Parallels). I've said this many times before but Windows 7 is a good release and given this I do not see existing Windows users switching to the Mac in the same numbers as they have been in the past. This one isn't Vista.
I'd be very disappointed if you saw this as "trolling" but it is possible that you may. It is a sad state of affairs if people cannot form an objective opinion.
cecily said 2:05PM on 8-09-2009
Camtasia is hardly just a screencasting application. User experience practitioners use the software extensively to conduct and record usability testing sessions. There aren't very many applications on the Mac that allow you to do this, so for that reason a number of UX studios and consultants keep a Windows machine around just for Camtasia.
John said 11:35PM on 8-08-2009
"If you're wavering on the edge of switching to the Mac as a consequence of the impending release of Windows 7, this may be news that will push you over that edge."
I'm a Mac, through and through. Been using one since Classic, LC, Performa, etc. I gave up Windows for good a few years back, at home at least.
Having said that, I don't get this. From what I can tell, Windows 7 is leaps and bounds past Vista. Would it's release be the thing putting people on the edge of switching, and further, would Camtasia provide that final push?
Hyberbole, you has it.
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JDog said 11:47PM on 8-08-2009
Hyperbolic yes. Lazy writing certainly. Malevolent "dig" at Windows, certainly not. I think you and David are taking this way too seriously an obviously missed the simple point of the post to inform of a release date of ported application soon to be released on the Mac platform. Jeez.
ErnieP said 12:48AM on 8-09-2009
"If you're wavering on the edge of switching to the Mac as a consequence of the impending release of Windows 7, this may be news that will push you over that edge."
I don't know of anyone wavering on Windows 7. I'm switching back to Windows because of it. That and I'm sick of Apple's big brother-ish attitude, glosstastic screens, lack of hardware options and pricing. I’m glad to hear that Camtasia Studio will be waiting for me too.
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puhsitch said 1:02AM on 8-09-2009
Yeah, stick it to the man, Ernie!
Joey said 12:53AM on 8-09-2009
"If you're wavering on the edge of switching to the Mac as a consequence of the impending release of Windows 7"
Sorry to say but the "Vista sucks, get a Mac" bandwagon is over. Windows 7 is by far the best OS Redmond has produced in ages. It's certainly not perfect and I still prefer my Mac but I'd hardly think Windows 7 itself is cause enough to make anyone switch platforms (unless you're feeling burnt by the lack of an upgrade path from Vista Ultimate).
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samu said 7:28AM on 8-09-2009
Yes, that was a pretty bizarre intro...
Aaron S. said 1:54AM on 8-09-2009
Hmmm... I use Camtasia for Windows and it is impressive. I also use ScreenFlow on the Mac, equally impressive. However, aren't both becoming moot in light of Snow Leopard offering screen recording as part of QuickTime X?
If so, I say save the $99 bucks and pay $29 for the Snow Leopard upgrade (provided you're already running Leopard).
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KeynoteKen said 2:56AM on 8-09-2009
Recording, yes, but taking that recording and cropping, annotating, displaying mouse click, adding audio cues, transitions, etc. That's something QuickTime's not going to do.
LAGal said 3:38PM on 8-12-2009
so heard. and then you can use the pre loaded ilife suite to edit, add voiceovers etc.
John.B said 5:09AM on 8-09-2009
I think some of you guys take this stuff far too seriously. It's a blog post, it's *supposed* to be snarky!
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Todd Sieling said 12:17PM on 8-09-2009
> It's a blog post, it's *supposed* to be snarky!
I couldn't disagree more, John, and I'm happy that most bloggers that I read don't take that view.
As for Camtasia, it'll need some serious magic to pull me away from Screenflow. I've been in love with that app since I first tried it out, specifically for how it divides up production and post-production, removing the distraction of managing effects while recording like other apps do. Nice to see Camtasia coming to the Mac just the same, as it keeps the pressure on to improve.
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xavier caine said 12:24PM on 8-09-2009
May I just say that I am more likely to switch back to Windows 7 than convince people I know to switch to Mac.
Not really related to the topic of a screencaster article, but neither was that intro.
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Jash Sayani said 3:15PM on 8-09-2009
QuickTimeX coming to Mac in October.
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Aaron S. said 8:17PM on 8-09-2009
@KeynoteKen Perhaps you have a point about the editing capabilities in QuickTime X, but wouldn't that be what iMovie would be used for?
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garybau said 5:16PM on 8-10-2009
QTX with mouseposé is all you will need...
camtasia studio on windows is about the same as screenflow
(snapz pro, ishowU also good...)
but..free is better than all of those..
of course if you have a leopard server podcast producer has screen capture on every mac...see utilities folder>podcast capture is already installed!!
podcast producer than creates every video format thought of...
3gp to HD1080p
mobile phone to large screen plasma
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